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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"><em><strong>Stan Manoukian</strong></em> is a French graphic artist born in 1969 in Paris. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">He has hads a passion for drawing since his childhood and most of his inspiration comes from retro sci-fi, classic monster movies, as well as the novels of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Jules Verne.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">In 1988, after he graduated from the Estienne Art School, he started to work in France and the United States as a cartoonist, designer and storyboarder for the movie industry and in advertising. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">In 2007, <em><strong>Manoukian</strong></em> issued himself an artistic challenge: draw one monster a day for one year. This larger scale initiative gave birth to the book called <i><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Diary of Inhuman Species</span>, </i>published by Ankama the following year. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Since then, the exploration of his phantasmagoric world pushes him towards bigger and more ambitious projects, testing diverse techniques in both drawing and sculpture.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">He belongs to the worldwide generation of post lowbrow artists. With his increasingly detailed content, abounding with dreamlike creatures, his work harkens to the romantic paintings from the nineteenth century. His<span>  </span>menagerie is composed of creatures both extraterrestrial and from the deepest abysses on Earth, thereby transporting the viewer to a fantastic and surrealistic world, where nature is omnipresent.  </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Heir of Gustave Doré, Franklin Booth, and Bernie Wrightson, Stan Manoukian refines a unique visual scripture through hatching and dimming, which employs ink or graphite to mimic<span>  </span>an engraving. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Currently, his works are<span>  </span>internationally recognized and have been displayed in several exhibitions and books in the USA, Japan, Australia, France and Europe.</span></p>
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